[00:02] hmm, my apache segfaulted a few times during a security upgrade; fine before and seems fine after - I guess something screwy in the way the upgrade was done === Lcawte is now known as Lcawte|Away === m0nkey_ is now known as m0nkey_|away [01:36] glitches during security updates poke your paranoia a smidge [01:38] yeh === m0nkey_|away is now known as m0nkey_ [01:41] and leave a lingering doubt that never quite fades === m0nkey_ is now known as m0nkey_|away === m0nkey_|away is now known as m0nkey_ === m0nkey_ is now known as m0nkey_|away === m0nkey_|away is now known as m0nkey_ === m0nkey_ is now known as m0nkey_|away === m0nkey_|away is now known as m0nkey_ === zmoylan-1i is now known as zmoylan-pi [06:01] hi;] [06:13] o/ [06:52] sleepy time for me [06:52] ;D [10:40] morning boys and girls. [11:59] "Use of this channel implies acceptance of the terms at..." [still can't see which are the term times & which are the school holiday times] [12:07] * zmoylan-pi breaks out the pea shooter and pelts SuperEngineer to make it clear [12:08] :) [12:12] * SuperEngineer throws stale buns at zmoylan-pi - bun fight stylie [12:12] * zmoylan-pi knots together rubber bands to make a finger catapult and folds paper to make ammunition... [12:13] * SuperEngineer chews paper, gets straws... aims [12:14] * zmoylan-pi puts a dozen thumbtacks in sheet of paper and slides it under SuperEngineer when they sit down [12:15] * SuperEngineer saws through 3 out of 4 zmoylan-pi chair legs [12:17] * zmoylan-pi opens cartridge pen and pours ink in pool on SuperEngineer's seat to earn them the name smurfbottom for rest of term after next p.e. class [12:18] * SuperEngineer connects zmoylan-pi's bunsen burner's gas pipe to mains water feed! [12:19] [...& yes - I actually *did* swap the whole phsics labs pipes once! [12:20] * zmoylan-pi sets up SuperEngineer's bunsen burner to cook toast and notifies teacher... [12:21] * SuperEngineer sulks - darn teachers' pets! [12:21] * zmoylan-pi nibbles on toast i made earlier... [12:22] we got kicked out of the lab for making toast on bunsen burners. some health and safety violation i think [12:24] this was after we were kicked out of the lab for using foot long mercury thermometers as light sabres [12:24] when I "re-routed the gas/water pipes the physics master had to leave the room [laughing] - he had previously told me he had done this himself... did we laugh! [my punishment - to reconnect the pipes the correct way round befoire anybody worked out what had happened!] [12:25] science was much more fun before health and safety got involved... :-D [12:25] nmmm.. mercury; ever made a mercury motor? [12:26] no [12:26] ever then stepped up the voltage to 480???? ever since a room evacuated at double speed? [12:26] they wouldn't let us do experiments with electricity. i think they knew us too well [12:27] [and you see all this stuff on tv trying to convince kids that science is fun... dunno what they mean!] [12:28] we studied a lot of gravity by throwing people off fire escape. i wonder now how we managed to not injure anyone to require a plaster cast [12:29] oooh - now that's one I did miss out on [12:29] i highly recommend people *don't* try this one at home. these days it'll all end in lawyers :-( [12:29] * SuperEngineer starts writing letter: "Dear old school, any chance I could come back for a few days... [12:30] were the people being thrown off willin subjects? [12:30] g [12:30] I missed out on an "experiment" ;) [12:30] if they were willing it would go against the spirtit of the game of course [12:30] there had to be a risk of been thrown off while trying to throw someone else off to make it a sport [12:31] iof they were willing... it just means they were budding parachutists! - though they were probably also forgetful, no parachute! [12:33] zmoylan-pi, you *do* realise that we are now both being marked out as a couple of evil idiots, don't you? [12:33] *or* evil geniuses! ;-) [12:34] confession... idiot yes, evil no! genius: definitely! [12:34] i went to a notorious school. [12:35] what's a notorious school... is it where you go if are already notorious or where you go to learn how? [12:35] when we were in a league with other schools for various sports they had to double the number of ambulances when we played [12:35] you shouldn't play against ambulances... they are big and rather hard when yoiu knock into them! [12:36] on my last day of school as i left for the last time i was oddly proud to watch gardai walk in to arrest a first year for breaking jcb window [12:37] * SuperEngineer renames channel ubuntu-school-confeessions ! [12:37] the driver in it at the time was upset for some reason... [12:37] lol [12:38] on my last day at day at school I found out the head master had a particular dislike of people ploughing a cricket pitch roller right through the 6th form hut! [12:38] who would have guessed [12:39] :) [12:40] we got a lot of detention after a letter for precare instructions for a vascetomy was put on notice board with principals name. totally worth it... [12:40] zm [12:41] whoops! [12:41] pretty difficult in mid 80s without a printer and nicely photocopied on header from real clinic [12:44] zmoylan-pi, I would mention my piece de resistance, but this is a family channel [suffice to say it may just possibly have me, my motor bike, the head master's gown, a set of false over-bite teeth, a perfect impersonation, a 6th form concert which all teachers rolling on floor laughing & a slight request from head master to visit his office immediately after} [12:48] ours was putting a nail in teachers stool. it was very carefully thought out. shortest teacher and tallest stool. no way they could accidently sit on it. held in with sellotape so if in 1 in million chance they did it would fall out [12:48] the teach took his stool out from under desk and just looked at 8" nail sticking out of it for about 2-3 minutes... [12:49] then looked at us and said in a way that made him very cool. 'i'm not sure which is worse, that you put this in my stool or thought i would be stupid enough to sit on it' :-P [12:49] The most amazing, gratifying and proof-my-time-was-well-spentest thing... [12:50] ...all that - and I was still welcomed back to do a photo-shot for them, then a light show for the school band, then a reunion - & only one dissenter amongst all the staff - bet you can't guess who rthat was ;) [12:50] hashtag end-of-confession [12:52] p.s. an 8" nail??? doesn't that border on overkill [literally] [12:52] wth do you even get an 8" nail [12:53] it had to be so big there was no chance they could sit on it combined with leaving the thought in the teachers head the little sods want me dead... [12:53] * zmoylan-pi whistles nonchantly [12:57] * SuperEngineer phones police [twice: once for you, once for me] ;) [12:57] we did a bad thing? [12:58] ermmmm... yup [12:58] i should have gotten permission before i nicked the nail? [12:58] yeah, that! [12:59] * zmoylan-pi decides to not reveal any of the bad things we did so [13:01] [but the things I did were never bad, honest guv! - in fact they were superb] [13:02] our rule was no one should be physically hurt (ie. requiring hospital) after that it was fair game [13:08] uihuhui [13:09] woops [13:11] my hp microserver seems to fail to boot a lot [13:12] ureadahead failed with status 5 [13:12] then shows disks gettingmounted [13:12] then nothing [13:15] try booting off usb drive to see if it's just the boot drive? [13:17] sometimes it works [13:17] but if you try it with usb drive does it always work? [13:17] i would expect so [13:17] ie. is the current drive on last spindle [13:17] morning [13:17] its a raid setup [13:17] oh, afternoon [13:18] ah yes you said. sorry, coffee still below optimal [13:18] o/ [13:22] hmm booted now. gonna run dist-upgrade [14:10] Good morning peeps :) [14:17] yo [14:20] evenin' [14:24] k[-p**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** [14:24] hello cat [14:24] hehe [14:25] I really wish it were [14:25] Just me dismantling some hardware with cables flopping about [14:55] Wife and I have just had ice-creams from an ice-cream van. Oh to live in suburbia in the spring time [14:56] * penguin42 is currently considering buying an icecream machine; I've been considering it for a while and It's getting more tempting by the day [14:58] summer is coming... [14:58] or what passes for summer in these parts :-) [15:00] nod === m0nkey_|away is now known as m0nkey_ === m0nkey_ is now known as m0nkey_|away [15:14] Fixed my glasses with blutac. Not sure how I really feel about this as I know it's not a long term fix [15:15] is that as long term in minutes hours or days or just an inconvenient time when they mustnt fail? [15:16] I'm missing a screw from one of the nose pads. So it'll if I don't take these glasses out of this office. I think [15:17] oh, not as bad as losing a screw out of the arm/bit that holds the lens [15:17] Yeah [15:21] anyone with good eyes about? [15:21] http://imgur.com/0JxQihw,0tliuXs,lb8Jts6 [15:21] two of those LEDs are apparently wide angle [15:21] two are narrow [15:22] the wide angle ones are lighter blue, the others are grey, but I can't tell the difference [15:22] popey: quickest way to find out is to stick them in some breadboard with a resistor and a batter [15:22] y [15:22] thats a way better idea [15:24] * popey wanders off again [15:26] put them under UVlight? === Lcawte|Away is now known as Lcawte [16:07] i have screen artifacts [22:42] today i've been experimenting with laser transfer PCBs [22:43] inkjet paper sucks, press n peel sucks [22:43] but i had good results with PVA film [22:43] only probably is it deforms in the printer cos it has a melting point 230 C and a laser printer is like 210 C [22:44] it gave by far the best results though, and in the shortest amount of time [23:02] a zx thermal printer! \o/ :-) [23:05] I just order boards from china. kinda blows for turnaround time, but they've been spot on so far [23:08] who did you use? [23:09] seeed's one .. the name escapes me right now [23:09] seeed have good prices but then it's like $50 for delivery [23:10] yeah, you have to be able to bundle a few for it to pay off [23:10] but I still haven't paid for Eagle, so I tend to end up stacking a few boards because the free version won't let me make them bigger [23:11] probably false economy, but it works for me. and localizes screwups to a single board [23:14] I've been slowly building up a radio, but constantly discovering that I know jack squat. so keeping it this modular has made it much easier to try different things [23:20] mostly though, I'm just lazy. we used UV masks at school. freaking messy. china makes it as easy as ordering pizza [23:38] * m0nkey_ is not a happy bunny [23:39] that's the third time Xorg has hung on me